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   On Wed, 02 Apr 2025 16:37:49 +0000, Ben Collver wrote:   
      
   > On 2025-04-01, Richmond  wrote:   
   >> Ben Collver  writes:   
   >>   
   >>> To cope with this problem some workers have devised their own   
   >>> conventions of writing and pronouncing such numbers. A system in use   
   >>> at the Bell Telephone Laboratories would set off the above figure in   
   >>> groups of three digits:   
   >>>   
   >>>     11,110,101,000   
   >>>   
   >>> and would then pronounce each group of three (or less) separately as   
   >>> its decimal equivalent. The first binary group, 11, is the equivalent   
   >>> of the decimal 3; the second, 110, of the decimal 6; the third, 101,   
   >>> of the decimal 5. (000 is zero in any notation.) The above would then   
   >>> be read, "Three, six, five, zero."   
   >>   
   >> This is called Octal, is it not.   
   >   
   > Yes this is called Octal.  I only recall using octal in two places:   
   > C escape sequences (\033) and Unix file mode bits (755), both   
   > coincidentally from Bell.   
      
   I still use octal when using the chmod command, as I never learned the   
   syntax of the alternative. All the bit meanings are burned into my brain.   
      
      
      
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